This is the first Question and Answer Meeting in Saanen, Switzerland, in 1982.

Main topic: Conflict is a Factor of Deterioration of the Brain.

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Q1: Can one slow down the aging process of the mind?

Everything wears out of friction. Is it perpetual conflict that wears out the brain?
Can the brain which is mechanical, which is constantly active, can it slow down, can its activity stop?

Q2: How can one face an incurable disease with all the physical pain and agony?
There is psychological pain, the pain of wanting to become, to achive and the pain of being hurt by another. Physical pain has many causes. Can one observe physical pain, remain with it, not being identified with it?

The central factor in both question of the brain keeping young and of the pain is intelligence. So what is intelligence? It is not the clever activity of thought. The quality of intelligence is love, compassion.